Miami Showband killings

The Miami Showband killings occurred at 2:30 AM on 31 July 1975 when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) unionist paramilitary group ambushed the minibus of the "Miami Showband", an Irish country pop band, near Newry in County Down, Northern Ireland. Two of the gunmen were killed when the bomb that they carried prematurely exploded, but the other gunmen killed band members Fran O'Toole, Tony Geraghty, and Brian McCoy, while two other members of the band were wounded. Northern Ireland's live music scene, which had brought Catholics and Protestants together, fell after the band killings.